Benjamin



(No Model.)

B. P. HORTON.

AXLE FOB VEHICLES.

No. 306,754. Patented 001:. 21, 1884.

UNirnn STATES PAT NT rnicn.

BENJAMIN F. HORTON, OF ITHAOA, NE? YORK.

AXLE FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,754, dated October 21, 1884.

Application filed June U, 1884 (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Beit known that I, BENJAMIN F. HORTON, a citizen of the United States, and a.- resident of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New Yorl ,'have invented an Improved Axle for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My object is to make an axle and its hubboxing little liable to wear, and to provide forthe oiling of the same.

My axle has the fastening-screw preferably at the base or inner end'of the boxing, but may have that screw at its outer end or at its point. Both forms are seen in the drawings. And my invention relates, mainly, to the prevention of the wear that takes place at the shoulder of the box. The outer end or point wears considerably; but most wagons having a gather to the wheels thrust the box against the base, shoulder, or inner bearing on the axle; hence the wear is the greatest at this place. To obviate this I make here two bearing surfaces or shoulders-one with a leather collar, and the other, without aleather collar, is a metallic bearing, and thus it is apparent that I enlarge the wearing-surfaces and give two kinds of material for the wearleathc1 and metal. One of the shoulders I prefer to makeofbell-metal orotherslow-wearingmetal, and put it on the axle tightly. This, being adjustable, provides,by substituting a thicker metal collar, for the wear of the outer end of the box. The shoulders-two or three in numbermay be made in one piece of bell-metal, fitted to put on and take oif of the axle. My invention will be apparent as I describe it.

Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation of my axle and its box. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the axle. Fig. 3 is an axle without the base fastening-screw and with an adjustable metallic shoulder-piece on the axle, with three bearing-shoulderstwo with leather collars and one a metallic bearing. Fig. 4shows 'a metallic collar or washer on the metallic c.' In all the figures except Fig. 3 leather collars are back of the shoulders,between the shoulders and the locking-nut f, which are marked The divided or step-like shoulders give the large shouldering spoken of and the large wearing-surfaces for. the base of the box, this base end being fitted to the shapes of the axle that has been described. \Vhen this base 1ocking-nut is used, a screw-cap, h. closes the front or outer end of the box, and this provides that the oil-cavity t in the end of the axle (indicated by dotted lines) shall both give oil to the axle or receive any surplus oil of the axle into the said cavity. \Vhen the other form of Fig. 3 is used, an escape and entrance hole must be used to make connection with the oil-chamber.

The divided step-shaped shouldering at the base of the box bearing on the axle can be made as seen in Fig. 3, where L is the iron base-colla 1' that sustains the thrust of the wagon-wheel, and over this is put the bearingpiece m, made preferably of bell-metal, being constructed to fit closely the iron base-collar on the one side and the box on the other, there being leather dollars on the divided sh onlders, except one. By varying the thickness of this bell-metal shoulder-piece there is provision for the wear of the box and shoulders, a thicker one being substituted, or leather collars being put between the iron base-shoulder It and the metal piece at. when the stepshoulde'ring is made as a part of the axle, as in Fig. at, with a bell or other durable metal collar, a, on the metallic bearingshoulder 0,

and this wearing has loosened the wheel, there is a thicker meta-l collar put on this shoulder in place of the one too thin.

The especial advantage of leather collars on i one or more shoulders is the absence of noise, while the metallic bearing-shoulder gives firmness to the wheel greater than leather.

The end bearings or surfaces of the baseof the axle and box are the main ones sought as subject-matter of invention; yet it is clear that the sides of the steps are bearing-surfaces also. The other advantages, uses, and construction of my invention are apparent.

lVhat I claim isy 1. In vehicle axles, the separate and removable piece or rim m, provided with steps or enlargements expanding in succession toplace between the base eollar 7.: and axlebox. fitted to the inemllie piece and t0 the axle,

I), as set forth. and the axle provided with an endwise-nmde An axle made with a rim, l.', at its base, oil-cavity, 'i, as shown and described.

111 (:omblnablon with a metallic inside piece, :BEX'LLHN R HORTON ward its base, and fitted to and held in its fitted. the separate piece m, with 2L hub-box w y l in, the hub-box being fitted t0 the said piece.

as shown and described. 'Witnesses:

b. An axle as a combined whole, consisting l. J. PARTENIIEIMJCR, of the axle a, with base-knob Zyte which J. PARKER. 

